Total Cast: 14, Flexible Set ISBN-13: 9780822212157. About the Play: Waiting for Lefty was one of Royal National Theatre of Britain's top 100 plays of the 20th century. Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets Director: Joanne Lawler May 7 to 22, 2021. After the war, Glover joined his partner, Norman McLaren, producing films at the National Film Board of Canada. Broadway Play One Act Original. THE STORY: WAITING FOR LEFTY is a series of varied episodes that blend into a powerful mosaic of the American working class. Broadway Play One Act Original. Waiting for Lefty. FEE: $50 per performance. Waiting For Lefty premiered January 6, 1935, for an audience of 1,400 at the Civic Repertory Theatre, [8] at a benefit for New Theater magazine. The cast and several union radicals stood up to protest and a riot broke out during which nine people were arrested including members of the cast and Joe Gilbert, of the Taxicab Drivers' Union i ,, ,:.,, \ Waiting for Lefty (1935) 325 and a leader of the New York taxi strike. Waiting for Lefty, one-act play by Clifford Odets, published and produced in 1935.One of the first examples of proletarian drama, the play takes place during the Depression, in a meeting hall of the taxi drivers’ union. Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets Director: Joanne Lawler May 7 to 22. The play cost about eight dollars to produce. Written in 1935 amid the American Great Depression, Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike. Guy Glover and other cast members of Waiting for Lefty at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1936. Waiting for Lefty characters breakdowns including full descriptions with standard casting requirements and expert analysis. Explicit political Sanford Meisner Director. Cast Size: 2 women, 13 men. [3] At the time, there was nothing like it on the stage. [1]: 315 The audience was greatly moved and met the play with acclaim; the cast that night took 28 curtain calls. Waiting for Lefty. Casting Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty," a vigorous, confrontational work, based on a 1934 strike of unionized New York cab drivers. Longacre Theatre ... View All Cast Clifford Odets Writer. Written in 1935 amid the American Great Depression, Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike. The story of ''Waiting for Lefty'' began in 1934, when Odets, then 28, wrote it in three nights in a Boston hotel room. Written in 1935 amid the American Great Depression, Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike. Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets Director: Joanne Lawler May 7 to 22, 2021. 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